The regurgitation free browser

Jul 2, 2009 13:34 GMT  ·  By

Was the Internet Explorer 8 vomit video advertisement a tad hard for consumers to swallow? Did it manage to leave an unpleasant aftertaste? No matter the reason, fact is that Microsoft has pulled the commercial altogether. Fear not, it is still available in the wild, and I even managed to embed it among the videos at the bottom of this article. I'm more than sure that you'll want to jump straight to it, so it's the last one on the bottom. However, the others are worth a watch as well, some even more entertaining and humorous than the IE8 puke ad.

Truth be told, I was going to share a very raw piece of my mind on the latest marketing effort from Microsoft. But I decided instead to be as objective as possible, and I'm going to let you put your two cents in the comments section below. The commercials are an integral part of the Better Browser/Browser for the Better effort associated with a campaign designed to feed hungry Americans for each download of Internet Explorer 8 RTW. The ads are meant to present the main features of the successor of IE7 in a comedic perspective. You be the judge of whether they make it or not.

The O.M.G.I.G.P video promises a regurgitation free browser in Internet Explorer 8 thanks to InPrivate browsing. When it first introduced InPrivate, Microsoft tried to change the leopard's spots and pass the feature off as an aid for users who would want maybe to shop for a gift online without ruining the surprise. Still, from the start end users interpreted InPrivate as a way to access and view explicit content on the web without any other people with access to the machine stumbling by mistake over the websites visited because of the information kept in history.

The remaining three videos F.O.M.S., S.Y.N.E.S.S., and G.R.I.P.E.S., manage to be less graphic, and a tad more fun. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 to web in mid-March 2009. Almost four months later, the Redmond company is still collecting feedback for the next iteration of IE, without sharing any details with the public.